(27864) Antongraff Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 March 1995 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.
Swiss Anton Graff (1736-1813), born in Winterthur, was a leading eighteenth-century portrait painter, teaching since 1766 at the Dresden Academy of Arts. He recorded many of the most famous of his contemporaries (Gellert, Lessing, Herder, Wieland and Schiller) and frequently also himself.Naming citation (20020427/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Antongraff is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Antongraff is 2.94 au from the Sun and 3.55 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27864 |
| Provisional designation | 1995 EA9 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.84 km (#10,933 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.361 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.85 |
| Orbital period | 4.59 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.76 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.37 – 3.15 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.141 |
| Inclination | 9.39° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.38 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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